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Do you need an easy way to reformat a W3C date so insure that it had the correct the timezone offset? What you need is an automated way to do the W3C date conversion for you. You don't want to write code yourself, now do you?
Cory King wrote a neat little tool that does W3C date conversion online. You paste in a date and it gets formatted using PHP's date format function. Whenever you need to decode a crazy date string, like the W3C date format, this utility does the trick.
Note: these are not the C style ones you might be familiar with (%H:%i:%s).